Ex-Navy SEAL who wrote Bin Laden book gets warning from Pentagon [1]

Los Angeles Times
David S. Cloud, August 31, 2012

Ex-Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette, who wrote 'No Easy Day' about the Bin Laden raid, violated an agreement not to reveal classified information, the Pentagon says.

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Bissonnette did not submit his manuscript for review by the Pentagon as he was required to do under an agreement he signed in 2007, an official says. (AP Photo/Dutton / August 30, 2012)

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon formally warned a former Navy SEAL who has written a first-person account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden last year, saying he has violated his signed agreement not to divulge classified information, and it threatened him with stiff legal action.

"In the judgment of the Department of Defense, you are in material breach and violation of the non-disclosure agreements you signed," Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson said Thursday in a letter addressed to Mark Owen, the pen name of Matt Bissonnette.

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